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English
Etymology
From fore- + live.
Verb
forelive (third-person singular simple present forelives, present participle foreliving, simple past and past participle forelived)
- To live or come before; precede
1806, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal:[…] Or if I seek the visitation, then He fills me, and my foul is carried on, And then do I forelive the race of men, So that the things that will be, are to me […]
1876, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems of Places Oceana 1 V:Considering in how small a room do lie, And yet lie safe (as fresh as if alive), All those great worthies of antiquity, Which long forelived thee, and shall long survive; Who stronger tombs found for eternity, […]
1883, Truth, volume 13:When the wind is moaning a dreary dirge, And the curtain of night is blackly drawn; When the swirling breakers higher surge, And never a star forelives the dawn,— 'Tis then that the Lighthouse Man keeps watch, And stands by his lamps like a hero true […]
1897, Elwin Vyne, Gather'd Fragments:But where, in those scant days we task'd ourselves,— As we were wont in that anterior time,— To forelive future being to excess, To scale youth's daring, sublimated heights, […]
1912, Bulletin of the Pan American Union, volume 34:Patterson, the guiding spirit of the many fruitless expeditions which were launched with such high hopes, forelived his time.